4.SANITATION VS VACCINATION - Infectious Diseases and Social Change, Vitamin A and Measles, Nutrional Defeciencies and Diseases

1. SANITATION VS VACCINATION
Researched by: Antonio Bernard

3. Subjects: A total of 463 students ranging in age from 18 to 32 years made up
the control group. A total of 252 students ranging in age from 18 to 30 years made
up the experimental or test group.
Method: Investigators tracked the number of reports of cold and flu symptoms
among the 1991 test population of the facility compared with the reports of like
symptoms among the 1990 control population.

4. Those in the control population reporting symptoms were treated with pain
relievers and decongestants, whereas those in the test population reporting
symptoms were treated with hourly doses of 1000 mg of Vitamin C for the
first 6 hours and then 3 times daily thereafter. Those not reporting symptoms
in the test group were also administered 1000-mg doses 3 times daily.

5. Results: Overall, reported flu and cold symptoms in the test group decreased
85% compared with the control group after the administration of megadose
Vitamin C.
Conclusion: Vitamin C in megadoses administered before or after the
appearance of cold and flu symptoms relieved and prevented the symptoms in
the test population compared with the control group.
(J Manipulative Physiol Ther 1999;22:530–3)

6. Conclusion: Overall, vitamin C appears to exert a multitude of
beneficial effects on cellular functions of both the innate and adaptive
immune system. Although vitamin C is a potent antioxidant protecting the
body against endogenous and exogenous oxidative challenges, it is likely
that its action as a cofactor for numerous biosynthetic and gene regulatory
enzymes plays a key role in its immune-modulating effects. Vitamin C
stimulates neutrophil migration to the site of infection, enhances
phagocytosis and oxidant generation, and microbial killing.

7. Conclusion: At the same time, it protects host tissue from excessive
damage by enhancing neutrophil apoptosis and clearance by macrophages,
and decreasing neutrophil necrosis and NETosis. Thus, it is apparent that
vitamin C is necessary for the immune system to mount and sustain
an adequate response against pathogens, whilst avoiding excessive
damage to the host.

8. Conclusion: Vitamin C appears to be able to both prevent and treat
respiratory and systemic infections by enhancing various immune cell
functions. Ensuring adequate intake of vitamin C through the diet or
via supplementation, especially in groups such as the elderly or in
individuals exposed to risk factors for vitamin C insufficiency, is
required for proper immune function and resistance to infections.

9. “In almost every known infectious disease, vitamin A
deficiency is known to result in greater frequency, severity, or
mortality.12 Increased susceptibility to infection was one of the first
features of nutritional vitamin A deficiency to be recognized,13 and
even mild deficiency appears to be associated with an increased
risk of pneumonia, diarrhea, and death in childhood.”

11. “The researchers argue that the effectiveness of vitamin
A supplementation is now so well-established that further
trials would be unethical, and they urge policymakers to
provide supplements for all children at risk of deficiency.”

12. “Vitamin A is an essential nutrient that must be obtained
through diet. Vitamin A deficiency in children increases
vulnerability to infections like diarrhea and measles and may
also lead to blindness. Globally, the World Health Organisation
estimates that 190 million children under the age of 5 may be
vitamin A deficient. But, despite widespread efforts, vitamin A
programmes do not reach all children who could benefit.”

13. “They found vitamin A supplements reduced child
mortality by 24% in low and middle income countries. It may
also reduce mortality and disability by preventing measles,
diarrhea and vision problems, including night blindness.”

22. “ Examination of the diseases which contributed to
the decline suggested that the main influences were: a)
rising standards of living, of which the most significant
feature was a better diet; b) improvements in hygiene;
and c) a favorable trend in the relationship between
some micro-organisms and the human host.”

23. Declining Diseases
“The most widespread
and lethal diseases in the
last 200 years were reduced
due cleaner drinking water,
improved sanitation,
nutrition, less overcrowded
areas, and better living
conditions.”
-— —Dr. Dave Mihalovic, ND

24. Declining Diseases
“Vaccines were
introduced at the point were
every single disease was
already declining. To give
vaccines credit for global
reductions in disease is like
giving a band-aid credit for
healing a wound that was
already closing.”
-— —Dr. Dave Mihalovic, ND

25. Declining Diseases
“Vaccines were
introduced at the point were
every single disease was
already declining. To give
vaccines credit for global
reductions in disease is like
giving a band-aid credit for
healing a wound that was
already closing.”
-— —Dr. Dave Mihalovic, ND

26. Declining Death Rates
“...by the time
laboratory medicine came
effectively into the picture
the job had been carried far
toward completion by the
humanitarian and social
reformers of the nineteenth
century”
-— (Mirage o f Health, 1959, New York).

27. Declining Death Rates
“The modern amenities
(mainly clean-running water,
electricity, garbage collection,
modern buildings) that
eradicated diseases also
extended our life expectancy.
Modern medicine, despite what
the drug companies claim, had
no role in eradicating diseases
or prolonging life.”

28. “If anything, synthetic
drugs and vaccines have
shortened the lives of millions.
Doctors and hospitals are the
3rd leading cause of death in
the USA.”
Toxic Chemicals

29. “Some have claimed that
the medical system is actually
the 1st leading cause of death
because the vast majority of
those who have died of heart
attacks, cancer, and diabetes
were on medication or
chemotherapy—they were
involved in the medical
system.”
Toxic Chemicals

30. Toxic Chemicals
“The reason is that the
ingredients in drugs, vaccines,
and chemotherapy are toxins
and poisons to the body.”

31. Smallpox & Sanitation
“Again, THE ONLY WAY
TO PREVENT DISEASE IS TO
REMOVE THE CAUSES. For
example, smallpox was caused
mostly by overcrowding,
contaminated water, closeness
to feces and urine, and food
spoilage.”

32. Smallpox & Sanitation
“Overcrowding has been
solved by modern buildings
and urban planning.
Contaminated water was
solved with sewer systems,
plumbing, and water filtering
systems.”

33. Smallpox & Sanitation
“People no longer defecate
or urinate in their backyards or
buckets, thanks to toilets and
indoor plumbing. Food spoilage
was solved with electricity
(refrigeration). Because of
sanitation and hygiene,
smallpox was eradicated in
developed countries.”

34. “By the late 1950s, even before the introduction of measles
vaccine, measles-related deaths and case fatality rates in the
United States had decreased markedly, presumably as a result of
improvement in health care and nutrition.”

35. “In conclusion, the largest historical decrease in morbidity and
mortality caused by infectious disease was experienced not with
the modern antibiotic and vaccine era, but after the introduction
of clean water and effective sewer systems.”

36. “The enormous appeal of correcting zinc deficiency is that
in normalizing the function of cells in multiple tissues, it
enhances the child’s ability to combat disease states and not
just single infectious organisms. Thus, on a worldwide public
health level, it is likely to be more economically feasible than
vaccines directed against specific organisms.”

37. “It is quite fitting for a symposium reviewing progress in
infant nutrition in the 20th century to start with a review of
infant mortality rates during that time period. Indeed, it has
been a truism in public health that, within limits, the infant
mortality rate of any community, large or small, reflected its
general state of health better than any other single indicator.”

38. “Although no longer valid for the wealthier countries, it is still
the norm for most countries in the world, where the diseases that
kill most babies, i.e., infections, diarrhea and pneumonia, are all
enhanced by inadequate nutrition. Interrelation of infection and
nutrition was appreciated early, as documented persuasively in
Scrimshaw's classic 1975 review ”

39. “Most striking is the remarkable decline of deaths from
diarrheal diseases in the first half of the century, most of it well
before the flowering of the antibiotic era. Two major factors
were probably at play, i.e., major environmental improvement,
which reduced the spread of various pathogens, and great
progress in understanding fluid and electrolyte therapy.”

40. “In 1930, in fact, the death rate from diarrheal diseases alone,
was more than four times the total infant mortality rate from all
causes in 1997. ”

41. “In explaining this change, I am fond of telling what I call
my Henry Ford story. I exaggerate, to be sure, but the
advent of a motor car so inexpensive as to be accessible to
large numbers of the population has never received proper
credit for its effect on child health.”

42. “Specifically, one major effect of introducing an
affordable car was to drive horses and their stables out of
the cities. And with them went the manure that nourished
countless generations of flies.”

43. “Assured employment led to less crowded housing and more
opportunity for personal hygiene, essential factors in breaking
the chain of transmission.”

44. “Deaths from infectious diseases had also diminished strikingly
by 1937; yet it was only in that year that use of the sulfonamide
drugs became widespread and antibiotics were still several years
off. Typhoid fever had almost disappeared and measles deaths
had been reduced sharply. It was the rare medical student who
had a chance to see a case of diphtheria.”

45. “In 1997, infant deaths from infectious diseases in total, including
HIV, numbered 721, which represents <0.2/1000 live births. Similarly,
deaths from pneumonia and influenza, many of which might just as
well have been classified as infectious diseases, had also
diminished strikingly. Again, diminution in crowded housing had a
substantial effect before the antibiotic era, but availability of the
latter played a greater role than in the diarrheal diseases.”

46. “The poor and the crowded always came off with increased rates of
certain diseases run in parallel. worst of all in war and in peace...”

47. “There was a continuous decline [whooping cough deaths], equal
in each sex, from 1937 onward. Vaccination, beginning on small
scale in some places around 1948 and on a national scale in 1957,
did not affect the rate of decline if it be assumed that one attack
usually confers immunity, as in most major communicable
diseases of childhood. … With this pattern well established before
1957, there is no evidence that vaccination played a major role in
the decline in incidence and mortality in the trend of events.”

48. “An analysis has been made of the evolution in Switzerland of
mortality due to the main infectious diseases ever since the causes of
death began to be registered. Mortality due to tuberculosis,
diphtheria, scarlet fever, whooping cough, measles, typhoid, puerperal
fever and infant gastro-enteritis started to fall long before the
introduction of immunization and/or antibiotics”

49. “The decline was probably due to a great extent to various
factors linked to the steady rise in the standard of living:
qualitative and quantitative improvements in nutrition; better
public and personal hygiene; better housing and working
conditions and improvements in education.”

50. Understanding Misconceptions about Our Origins
John H. Relethford.
50 Great Myths of Human Evolution
MYTH #41 The recent increase in life expectancy was due initially
to antibiotics
“Life expectancy at birth has increased
dramatically in some parts of the world and
we are likely to live longer than people did
even a short time ago in history. This rapid
increase in life expectancy has been in
large part due to a reduction in infectious
disease.”

51. Understanding Misconceptions about Our Origins
John H. Relethford.
50 Great Myths of Human Evolution
MYTH #41 The recent increase in life expectancy was due initially
to antibiotics
“It is often assumed that medical advances,
such as antibiotics, are responsible for these
changes. Actually, infectious disease rates had
declined rapidly decades before the first
antibiotics were developed. The initial
reduction in infectious disease was instead
due to public health measures, such as clean
water and adequate sanitation.”